Brief Encounter

BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) returns to the big screen 77 years after it first debuted in Pittsburgh at the Art Cinema! Co-presented with the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club, and featuring a special introduction by club president Wendy Whittick. What begins as a chance meeting in a railway-station tearoom becomes a cherished weekly tradition for saucer-eyed Celia Johnson’s prim-and-proper suburban housewife and Trevor Howard’s charming-but-married doctor as they share furtive lunches, trips to the cinema, and an afternoon of rowboating. It all seems so innocent until… From Lawrence of Arabia Director David Lean.